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Not bad I go with Lottera at 2b and damn we have had some crappy OF over the history. Would have had Kruk on there I guess

1B toughest position. I think I’d have gone Adrian and Mcgriff over Colbert although you had a point. A few years back I saw a study that said he hit 16 balls off the wall that season and he probably flew out to the track a few times might have been close

C I’m going Santiago cause he brought something to the position that changed the game

RP Goose over Bell. 3 ip relievers were studs. Probably realistically after Hoffman seems like Lefferts sure was a Padre forever and was always good not great but just throwing a different thought on it

Gary Sheffield would be on my team somewhere as well I’d put him over Finley but I don’t even remember if he played the OF here

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Hedges is hitting .375. Time to start thinking about extending him! Can we ink him to a simulated contract extension?

Hedges gets a silver slugger in his walk year, is signed to a ridiculously overpriced, long term FA contract by the Dodgers, takes them to six more Worlds Series, and is a pain in the Padres butt for the rest of his career. 🙄😫

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Not bad I go with Lottera at 2b and damn we have had some crappy OF over the history. Would have had Kruk on there I guess

1B toughest position. I think I’d have gone Adrian and Mcgriff over Colbert although you had a point. A few years back I saw a study that said he hit 16 balls off the wall that season and he probably flew out to the track a few times might have been close

C I’m going Santiago cause he brought something to the position that changed the game

RP Goose over Bell. 3 ip relievers were studs. Probably realistically after Hoffman seems like Lefferts sure was a Padre forever and was always good not great but just throwing a different thought on it

Gary Sheffield would be on my team somewhere as well I’d put him over Finley but I don’t even remember if he played the OF here

I thought about Lottera, but decided to go with Wiggins and I don't think Sheffield played the OF for The Padres. He was my 2nd choice at 3rd

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I love Alomar, I said at the time of the trade worse trade in Padres History. I went with Wiggins because he was a big reason the Padres had the success they did in 1984 and who knows, if he doesn't have a drug relasps in 1985, they might have made the playoffs again, but it's hard to argue with anyone that puts Alomar on their list

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Ya know, we've all been eagerly awaiting the 2020 season, when the Padres would FINALLY start realizing the potential from their long rebuild. We've been talking about 2020 being the year, for a couple of years now. We've eagerly followed Richards TJ recovery, and what a healthy Richards could bring to the 2020 staff. We're all relatively certain that we'll see Gore in his rookie season, at some point in 2020. Preller built an awesome bullpen for 2020. He brought in Pham, and Grisham looks every bit a major league center fielder.

But, all of this is just useless speculation, unless they play the games. It's like Tony Gwynn, the last .400 hitter in baseball, except because of a strike shortened season, he wasn't. He might have been. We'll never know. It's really, irrelevant to even speculate.

If 2020 is a lost, never played season, we'll be into yet another off-season. Yet another, five months of waiting, of hoping, of wondering, about the fate of the now 2021 Padres.

What will be lost in the 2020 aborted MLB season, can never be regained. Even now, if MLB restarts in May, so much has been lost that the winners will forever have that asterisk next to their record. The talk will forever be about who won or lost, due to the delayed season start.

This just sucks, and there's no silver lining to it. No amount of justification will make up for what's been lost, in the MLB for players and fans, in the economy, the business and jobs lost, senior year high school dances and graduations, it's all gone forever. 2020 is an abortion of a year for 330 million American lives.

I hope it was worth it for those eagerly calling for a long term, shut down of America.